Nonfiction
2004: The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander
2012: The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young

Trethewey's Domestic Work, Smith's The Body's Question, and Jackson's Missing You, Metropolis were recipients of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Alexander's Praise Song for the Day was read at President Barack Obama's first inauguration. Smith's Life on Mars was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and Kevin Young's The Grey Album won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.